Crimes Against the Environment: The Silent Victim of Warfare

Nov 8, 2015 | Steven Freeland
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Acts perpetrated during the course of warfare have, through the ages, led to significant environmental destruction. These have included situations in which the natural environment has intentionally been targeted as a “victim”, or has been manipulated to serve as a “weapon”. On Friday the United Nations marked the “International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict”.